Museum of Middle Pomerania
Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego | |
Former name | Stolper Heimatmuseum |
|---|---|
| Established | 1924 |
| Location | Słupsk Castle |
| Type | Local museum |
| Director | Marzenna Mazur |
| Curator | Mikołaj Radomski |
| Public transit access | Słupsk railway station |
| Website | muzeum |
The Museum of Middle Pomerania (Polish: Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego, MPŚ) is a museum of Middle Pomerania in the town of Słupsk, Poland.
History
The origins of the museum date back to 1910 when a local history society of Farther Pomerania donated their collection to the town on the anniversary of its founding under the Lübeck law. Based on these objects, the Stolper Heimatmuseum was opened during the Weimar Republic as a local museum of Köslin in 1924. Following World War II the museum was reopened on May Day 1948, despite an estimated 90% of the pre-war museum's collection having been lost. The museum moved to its current site in Słupsk Castle in 1965.[1]
Collections
The MPŚ collections constitute three subject areas of contemporary art, ethnography and history. While the museum inherited some of its collections from its predecessor, the majority of its archival collections were collected during the 1960s from the area of the Koszalin Voivodeship. The MPŚ also has a large collection of objects related to the artist Witkacy.[2]
Sites
In 2017 the MPŚ began restoration work on an historic granary adjacent to its site at Słupsk Castle. The European Regional Development Fund contributed €2,210,576 to the project, which was designed to house the arts collections of the museum.[3]
Exhibitions
In 2014 the museum hosted a temporary exhibit of work by the artist Witkacy.[4] In the same year the museum also put on an exhibition of art and technology which featured the works of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Otto Freundlich, Wojciech Kossak, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Matejko, Piotr Stachiewicz, and Max Pechstein. The exhibition also featured technological narratives related to the town told through the stories of the explorers Mirosław Hermaszewski and Umberto Nobile.[5] In 2018 the museum undertook an ethnobotanical project collecting local knowledge of medicinal and herbal plants that were grown on allotments. The following year an open air exhibition was opened in Swołowo based on the research.[6] In 2020 the MPŚ put on an exhibition about the regional social history of cutlery across the 17th-21st centuries.[7]
References
- ^ "Kurze Geschichte des Museumswesens in Stolp/Słupsk". Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego (in German).
- ^ "Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego w Słupsku". Culture.pl (in Polish). Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
- ^ "Historic granary transformed into museum in Słupsk, Poland". European Commission. 11 August 2020.
- ^ "Cały Witkacy! Zaproszenie na wystawę czasową". Nasze Miasto (in Polish). 27 November 2014.
- ^ "Kolekcja Działu Sztuki i Techniki Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego w Słupsku". Nasze Miasto (in Polish). 19 March 2014.
- ^ Nowak, Wojciech (27 May 2021). "Pomorska nagroda muzealna dla kustosza ze Słupska". Nasze Miasto (in Polish).
- ^ Wójcik, Marcin (9 September 2020). ""Przy wspólnym stole, czyli sztućce i akcesoria kulinarne od XVII do XXI wieku". Nowa wystawa w Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego". Nasze Miasto (in Polish).